Don Kirkman wrote:


> I always react automatically to the "Oriental" discussions, since the
> late Edward Said, in proposing that it was a bad thing, was writing
> about the Near East ("Oriental scholars" were those 19th/20th  century
> dudes who were digging up Egypt and Troy), and IMO a handful of folks
> tried to appropriate it to the Far East as well.  Within my lifetime I
> continue to hear a fair number of ethnic Asians calling themselves, each
> other, and their enterprises "Oriental" without either regret or
> recrimination, right here in little old California.

They obviously learned how to speak English from hicks.

- Kevin